When George Walker, the protagonist of the new horror film “Head Trauma,” finds a religious comic book at a phone booth near his home, the drawings might as well have “Made in Vermont” stamped across them.

That’s because the comic book — which is essential to the plot of the brooding and dark independent horror feature — was drawn and assembled by renowned Marlboro cartoonist Stephen Bissette and his son, Danny, more than two years ago.

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“The script called for a comic as a prop in the film,” Bissette explained. “It was to be a Christian comic, similar to and emulating the look of the Jack T. Chick mini-comics.”

But the role of the comic book and its themes quickly shifted throughout the movie’s filming and production, Bissette said.

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Thanks, Heidi, but hey, I draw each and every week!The Center for Cartoon Studies students get to see my scribblings on a regular basis. So what if it isn’t for publication? It was a good quarter-century run, and I made the best of it. Now I draw for myself, and to pass on what I know.